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Maybe Elephants

Three teenaged sisters and their parents move to Kenya and find themselves changed forever.

New Animated Films

The Painting
Michèle Lemieux 2024 11 min
In the Shallows
Arash Akhgari 2024 4 min
LOCA
Véronique Paquette 2024 5 min
Society of Clothes
Jeong Dahee 2024 15 min
Maybe Elephants
Torill Kove 2024 16 min
Zeb's Spider
Alicia Eisen & Sophie Jarvis 2022 9 min
Two Apples
Bahram Javahery 2022 9 min
Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics
Terril Calder 2021 19 min
HIDE
Daniel Gray 2020 10 min
Aphasia
Marielle Dalpé 2023 3 min
Miserable Miracle
Ryo Orikasa 2023 8 min
Boat People
Kjell Boersma & Thao Lam 2023 9 min

Unconventional Animation Mediums

Scratches of Life: The Art of Pierre Hébert
Loïc Darses 2024 1 h 17 min
Black Soul
Martine Chartrand 2000 9 min
Flawed
Andrea Dorfman 2010 12 min
The Magic Quilt
Bettina Maylone 1985 12 min
Animation from Cape Dorset
1973 18 min
Interview
Caroline Leaf & Veronika Soul 1979 13 min
Drux Flux
Theodore Ushev 2008 4 min
Vertical
Theodore Ushev 2003 4 min
Third Page from the Sun
Theodore Ushev 2014 5 min
Paradise
Ishu Patel 1984 15 min
Mr. Frog Went A-Courting
Evelyn Lambart 1974 4 min
Neighbours
Norman McLaren 1952 8 min

Staff Picks: Animation

LOCA
Véronique Paquette 2024 5 min
Society of Clothes
Jeong Dahee 2024 15 min
The Painting
Michèle Lemieux 2024 11 min
Scratches of Life: The Art of Pierre Hébert
Loïc Darses 2024 1 h 17 min
Maybe Elephants
Torill Kove 2024 16 min
The Physics of Sorrow
Theodore Ushev 2019 27 min
Village of Idiots
Eugene Fedorenko & Rose Newlove 1999 12 min
Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics
Terril Calder 2021 19 min
Madame Tutli-Putli
Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski 2007 17 min
Gloria Victoria
Theodore Ushev 2012 6 min
Detention
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & David Seitz 2017 37 s
Hipster Headdress
Amanda Strong 2017 40 s

Animated Films Nominated for Oscars

The Flying Sailor
Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby 2022 7 min
Affairs of the Art
Joanna Quinn 2021 16 min
Animal Behaviour
Alison Snowden & David Fine 2018 14 min
Blind Vaysha
Theodore Ushev 2016 8 min
Wild Life
Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby 2011 13 min
Sunday
Patrick Doyon 2011 9 min
Madame Tutli-Putli
Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski 2007 17 min
The Danish Poet
Torill Kove 2006 14 min
Ryan
Chris Landreth 2004 13 min
Strange Invaders
Cordell Barker 2001 8 min
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
Torill Kove 1999 10 min
When the Day Breaks
Wendy Tilby & Amanda Forbis 1999 9 min

Parental Advisory Animation

How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels
Craig Welch 1996 11 min
Paula
Dominic-Étienne Simard 2011 10 min
The Trenches
Claude Cloutier 2010 5 min
Bydlo
Patrick Bouchard 2012 8 min
Caterpillarplasty
David Barlow-Krelina 2018 5 min
Sext Apes
Laurence Vallières 2017 36 s
The Tesla World Light
Matthew Rankin 2017 8 min
The Subject
Patrick Bouchard 2018 10 min
The Spine
Chris Landreth 2009 11 min
Sexy Laundry
Izabela Plucinska 2015 12 min
Aria
Pjotr Sapegin 2001 10 min
Skin for Skin
Kevin D.A. Kurytnik & Carol Beecher 2017 15 min

Make Me Laugh

Shop Class
Hart Snider 2018 8 min
If I Was God...
Cordell Barker 2015 8 min
Freaks of Nurture
Alexandra Lemay 2018 6 min
Animal Behaviour
Alison Snowden & David Fine 2018 14 min
The Swimsuit
Iris Boudreau & Francis Papillon 2019 2 min
The Noodles
Iris Boudreau & Francis Papillon 2019 2 min
The Roommate
Stephanie Braithwaite 2014 1 min
The Tooth
Guy Delisle 2017 3 min
Meltdown
Carrie Mombourquette 2012 1 min
Pumpers
Pascaline Lefebvre 2016 1 min
Bus Story
Tali 2014 10 min
No Problem
Craig Welch 1992 12 min

Animation for Kids

Science Please! Part 1
2001 15 min
Science Please! Part 2
2001 15 min
How Dinosaurs Learned to Fly
Munro Ferguson 1995 5 min
Blackberry Subway Jam
Robert Doucet 1984 8 min
The Girl Who Hated Books
Jo Meuris 2006 7 min
Big Drive
Anita Lebeau 2011 9 min
Old Dog
Ann Marie Fleming 2020 3 min
The Reluctant Deckhand
Jan Padgett 1995 33 min
The Magic Flute
Gayle Thomas 1977 7 min
The Sweater
Sheldon Cohen 1980 10 min
Monsieur Pug
Janet Perlman 2014 9 min
Sea Dream
Ellen Besen 1979 5 min

Animation for Teens

Me and My Moulton
Torill Kove 2014 13 min
Flowing Home (Như một dòng sông)
Sandra Desmazières 2021 15 min
Affairs of the Art
Joanna Quinn 2021 16 min
The Danish Poet
Torill Kove 2006 14 min
Ryan
Chris Landreth 2004 13 min
Madame Tutli-Putli
Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski 2007 17 min
Maybe Elephants
Torill Kove 2024 16 min
The Physics of Sorrow
Theodore Ushev 2019 27 min
Vertical
Theodore Ushev 2003 4 min
Hunger
Peter Foldès 1974 11 min
Two Sisters
Caroline Leaf 1991 10 min
Uncle Thomas: Accounting for the Days
Regina Pessoa 2019 13 min

Indigenous-Made Animation Films

Arctic Song
Germaine Arnattaujuq , Neil Christopher , … 2021 6 min
The Mountain of SGaana
Christopher Auchter 2017 10 min
Three Thousand
Asinnajaq 2017 14 min
I Like Girls
Diane Obomsawin 2016 8 min
Maq and the Spirit of the Woods
Phyllis Grant 2006 8 min
Waseteg
Phyllis Grant 2010 6 min
Walk-in-the-Forest
Diane Obomsawin 2009 3 min
The Visit
Lisa Jackson 2009 3 min
Little Thunder
Nance Ackerman & Alan Syliboy 2009 2 min
Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics
Terril Calder 2021 19 min
Nunavut Animation Lab: Qalupalik
Ame Papatsie 2010 5 min
Nunavut Animation Lab: Lumaajuuq
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril 2010 7 min

Inspiring Stories

Hedgehog's Home
Eva Cvijanovic 2017 10 min
Village of Idiots
Eugene Fedorenko & Rose Newlove 1999 12 min
Lipsett Diaries
Theodore Ushev 2010 14 min
Trois mille
Asinnajaq 2017 14 min
Afterlife
Ishu Patel 1978 7 min
Ex-Child
Jacques Drouin 1994 4 min
Subconscious Password
Chris Landreth 2013 10 min
The Street
Caroline Leaf 1976 10 min
Mindscape
Jacques Drouin 1976 7 min
The End of the World in Four Seasons
Paul Driessen 1995 12 min
Animation from Cape Dorset
1973 18 min
L'homme sans ombre
Georges Schwizgebel 2004 9 min

Keep It Weird

Gloria Victoria
Theodore Ushev 2012 6 min
CMYK
Marv Newland 2011 7 min
Orange
Sylvie Trouvé 2009 1 min
HA'Aki
Iriz Pääbo 2008 4 min
Miserable Miracle
Ryo Orikasa 2023 8 min
Aphasia
Marielle Dalpé 2023 3 min
Hunger
Peter Foldès 1974 11 min
Around Perception
Pierre Hébert 1968 16 min
Notes on a Triangle
René Jodoin 1966 4 min
A Matter of Form
René Jodoin 1984 3 min
A Chairy Tale
Norman McLaren & Claude Jutra 1957 9 min
Synchromy
Norman McLaren 1971 7 min

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Indigenous-Made Animation Films

Inspiring Stories

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